Frederick reast



(No Model.)

F. BEAST.

SHOULDBR BRAGB coRsET.

No. 433,095. Patented July 29, 1890.

UNITED STATES FREDERICK REAST, OF IIASTINGS, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO IYALTER HUBBARD, OF

SAME PLACE.

SHOULDER-BRACE CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,095, dated July 29, 1890.

Application filed April 22, 1890. Serial No. 349,054. (No model.) Patented in England July 1, 1887, No. 9,368, and ill France March 23.1889,No.196,922. v i

To all whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK REAsT, a subject of the Queen of England, residing at Hastings, in the county' of Sussex, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, (for which I have obtained British Letters Patent No. 9,368, dated July 1, 1887, and French Letters Patent were granted to Walter I'Iubbard, No. 196,922, dated March 23, 1889,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to inprovenents in the construction of corsets or stays for women, men, and children, and has for its objects to afford support to the back of the wearer, to keep the figure erect, and to expand the chest, and to a great extent to prevent tight lacing.

In the aceompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective elevation of the back of a oorsetintended for women. Fig. 2 is an extended View of stays adapted for men and boys, drawn in full lines, and superimposed thereon is shown by dotted lines an extension thereof to make it suitable for women and girls, and Figs. 3 and 4 are detailed views of that portion of the shoulder-straps that pass under the arns.

In carrying out this invention the back portion of the corsets, denoted by A and A' in Fig. 1, -are prolonged to form shoulderstraps ct and ct', of gradually-decreasin g width, and of such length as to terminate under the arms, so that the extremities thereof may be secured in position by buekles l) l', attached to short strips of elastic webbing c c', sewed to the shoulder-straps. The shoulder-strap a on the right crosses and overlaps the strap a' and passes over the right shoulder, while the left strap a' crosses beneath and is overlapped by the strap a, and passes over the left shoulder.

At the free extrenity of each of the straps a a' are short lengths of elastic webbin g (Z (Z', which respectivcly engage with the buokles l) b'. The object of inserting these lengths of elastic material c c' and d d' is to allow free use of the arms, as the webbing yields to every movement thereof. The shoulderstraps are in part stifened by bones or stcels 71 h' fitted in pocket-s formed in the Straps.

Loops or supports j j' are stitched at one end to the corset A and A', and at the otler end to the strap a of, and through these shoulder-Straps are passed and supported thereby. It will be seen that the lacing at the back of the corset is not continued npward the entire height, but only about the lower half, as the shoulder-straps answer the purpose of lacing for the upper portion of the corset with greater advantage.

Fig. 2 represents by full lines stays adapted for men and boys. In this the bosom or front portion of the corset is dispensed with, but the shoulder-straps av and a' are carried across and over the shoulder, as described for Fig. 1, and are secured in position by the bnckles b and b' engaging with the free and elastic ends d and (l'. The back portions of the corset A and A' are in this instance prolonged to form a girth Yr, and secured around the waist by a buckle m. Then this kind of corset is to be used by females, front or bosom portions are provided, as shown by the dotted lines of Fig. 2, and furnished with long or short busks, as required. Bones or steels f f' are inserted for stiffening purposes.

To prevent the straps a a' twisting into a string and hurting the wearer, I insert a short piece of elastic tubing d2 at the part passing beneath the arms, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This tubing may take' the form of two small pipings d5 (1.5, inserted along the edges of the fabric (LS and stitched in along the lines d4, as shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. a is an enlarged View of the tubing sewed to the fabric, and indicatcd by a? a2 in Figs. 1 and 2.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim, and desire to be secnredby Letters Patcnt, is*

As a new article of manufacture, a corset having diagonally crossing and overlapping shoulder-Straps with supporting-loops, one end of each loop being attached to the Back of the cei-set and the other end to a speeification in the presence of two subscribshoulder-strap, a twist-resisting fiexihle tubing Witnesses.

ing attaehedto each shoulder-strap at Ithe FREDERICK REAST. point situated beneath the arms of the wearer, lVitnesses: 5 an elastic vvehhinxg` and seenrng-buckle at- ARTHUR OHAPMAN,

tachnent to the *shoulder-strap near the back, Solflctm'is Artcled Clerk, 35 Cambridge Gm"- and a short length lof lacing on the lower dens, Hastings; Sussex, England.

'portion of the back of the corset, substan- NV. STANDEN,

tially as and for the purpose set forth. Sol/L'c'torls Clerk, 3 Portland Terrace, Iassto In testimony whereof I have signed this mgs, Sussem, England. 

